Open enrollment in California’s Covered California (Cal) began Nov. 1 and will end Jan. 31, 2023. Signing up soon will ensure coverage beginning Jan. 1, 2023. Open enrollment is the time of year when eligible consumers can sign up for health insurance. Although nearly 1.7 million Californians already get health insurance through Covered Cal, an…
Editor’s note: The correspondent has worked with David Pelham for many years, first as guitar teacher and then helping him with his compositions for the guitar, and has been to Paracho, Mexico, with him. At 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, Idyllwild’s “Art of the Guitar” concert series will resume. This year’s concert will feature Alberto…
At about 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, Pine Cove Market was entered by two, young-appearing men wearing hoodies cinched up tightly around the fronts of their faces. (See security photo.) Clerk Liz Ratcliff, a four-year Hill resident, told the Town Crier the young men expressed interest in some of the products displayed on the front…
At the Oct. 25 meeting of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors, Ordinance 449.252 (a Temporary Moratorium on Short Term Rentals [STRs]) was approved unanimously. The board has now imposed a moratorium on issuing new STR certificates within the Idyllwild, Pine Cove and Mountain Center neighborhoods, and the Temecula Valley Wine Country. This moratorium will…
Monday, Oct. 24, was a big day for education administrators and possibly for the election in two weeks. The California Department of Education released the student scores from last year’s statewide assessments and national results from a separate testing set also were released. The overall message was “recovery is occurring.” The COVID pandemic’s effect on…
Ultra endurance runners from across the country gathered in Idyllwild Saturday, Oct. 29, for the second-annual San Jacinto 50k trail race. The course covered 34 miles of rugged terrain including (with intervening descents) over 10,000 feet of elevation gain. The race was again organized by desert physician and running enthusiast Alex Charmoz and his wife…
Idyllwild Rotary Club Idyllwild Rotary Club reported that residents of the hilltop communities generously donated $174 on World Polio Day Monday, Oct. 24, at the Idyllwild Post Office. These contributions will allow Rotary International to administer 3,480 doses of polio vaccine around the world.
By Janice MuraskoLast week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” new ARF cats talked about costumes for pets.Phil: It was a quiet weekend, wasn’t it?Atlas: Yes, except for Newton and me. We wrestled quite a bit.Don: You two are so funny. You’d be great in a home with younger people who like to play.Newton: Heck,…
75 years ago – 1947Town Crier wound up its first year of publication, written, mimeographed and mailed from the Maxwell home. News was brought right to the front door as the Maxwells did not have a telephone. 70 years ago – 1952Disaster struck an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. James Bowlin, when their Thomas Mountain…
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an extended moratorium on new short-term-rental (STR) certificates at its Tuesday, Oct. 25, meeting. The 45-day moratorium on new STR certificates, approved at the Sept. 13 meeting, was to expire Oct. 28. The moratorium applies to the Idyllwild area, including Pine Cove and Mountain Center, and the…
